The Committee of the Families of the Disappeared - Detainees of Honduras (COFADEH) repudiates the assassination last night against Mr. Juan Ángel López Miralda in the community of Rigores, municipality of Trujillo, Department of Colon.

In effect, as has been noted by organizations in the region, Juan Ángel had provided testimony about threats, persecution and attempts against him to this Committee on November 20, 2013.

At that time the victim testified that he belongs to the Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguan (MUCA) of the left bank of the Aguan River where he was president of cooperative, Cristo Rey, in the campesino settlement of Marañones. Among other facts he testified that on April 16, 2013 he survived an attack perpetrated by armed men wearing hoods over their faces.

A similar attack was repeated on October 16, 2013, seven days after Colonel German Alfaro of the Xatruch Forces and police from Yanga Nueva under the command of an official named Antúnez, visited the house of his father on October 9 with a hostile and inquisitor attitude.

Under these hostile conditions López Miralda decided to abandon the country after the November 2013 elections, returned for family reasons in July of 2014 without giving notification of this decision.

Today we vehemently repudiate his assassination and we demand a serious investigation of this event by the government authorities and that they quickly make the results known.

COPINH laments the cowardly assassination of compañero Juan Galindo, a criminal act committed last night, Tuesday November 11 around midnight in the community of RIgores in the Aguan Valley. Compañero Juan Galindo stood out as a campesino leader, participating in the process of struggle for the land to benefit the campesinos in the region. He had received constant death threats and his case was being observed and accompanied by various human rights organizations that sought his protection.

COPIN is in solidarity with the family of compañero Galindo and his community and demands that the Government of Honduras and the responsible authorities investigate immediately and effectively and apply justice to the intellectual and material authors (of the crime).

COPINH demands that the Government of Juan Orlando Hernández ends the criminalization, repression, persecution and assasination of social , political and popular leaders - a situation that is maintained in total impunity, for example the case of the campesina leader Margarita Murillo and many more.

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